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Most attractive thing you have seen your partner do?

76 replies

OneUmberJoker · 20/11/2025 20:42

Sing a song

OP posts:
Parky04 · 21/11/2025 12:43

The way he looked after my father who had dementia. He was so much better than me. He was so patient with him, and never lost his temper in the 7 years of my father's illness. He is now doing the same for his step dad and mum who are both going through serious illnesses. A truly wonderful man, who I love dearly.

visionpools · 21/11/2025 12:45

There’s lots of lovely things that he does that are attractive, like being a caring person and a brilliant dad.

But every time he puts his arm on my seat in the car to look behind as he reverses it drives me absolutely crazy.

ohyesido · 21/11/2025 12:52

Intervene on my behalf when a member of my family made a serious allegation against me for malicious reasons. Without any prompting from me

LittleJustice · 21/11/2025 12:56

When I told him I was anaemic and he immediately wondered what foods were high in iron so he could cook them for me.

When he wakes up and immediately cuddles in.

Halfull · 21/11/2025 13:01

The way he can hail a cab, with one hand while not really looking, can make them both appear and stop within 30 seconds as if by magic, and always pays. Always makes me feel so looked after and is incredibly hot. Still refuses to get an uber, ever, for which I am incredibly thankful.

GetOverTheEgo · 21/11/2025 13:03

We had a teeny tiny abandoned puppy. I went away for the weekend and came back to find he had built her a staircase so she could onto our bed.

She lived until she was 18 years old!

scoobysnaxx · 21/11/2025 13:08

Strong forearms that reverse with one arm over the back of the passenger seat and the other using the palm to turn the steering wheel.

absolutely weak 😂

DriveVerySlowlyPastNumber23IWantThemToSeeMyHat · 21/11/2025 17:39

scoobysnaxx · 21/11/2025 13:08

Strong forearms that reverse with one arm over the back of the passenger seat and the other using the palm to turn the steering wheel.

absolutely weak 😂

Yes!!! 😂😂😂

Jugendstiel · 21/11/2025 17:50

So many.
Early ones were:
He sang a silly song in my ear at a cool party in a London club. It was our second date. I wanted to marry him right then.
He remembered a fragment of words from my favourite traditional song from where I grew up (different song from the night club one) but didn't know the name of the song. He researched it until he found it, listened to loads of people singing it to find a version he thought I'd like, then bought me a CD with it on. I hadn't heard it since childhood.
When we were dating, he noticed me admiring something I couldn't possibly afford in an antique shop. Later on, I lost him in a busy market and saw him coming towards me carrying the thing I'd admired with this sweet beaming look on his face. He'd sneaked off to buy it.
He also lugged home an enormous sack of soil from that market and carried it up three flights of stairs to fill a new planter on my roof terrace. Never complained once. My lodger at the time nudged me and said: Phwoar - that's a proper man. Keep him.
And once, before we had DC, we looked after my nephews for the weekend. We were on our way to the park. I was with the baby and I turned round to see him holding my toddler nephew's hand and explaining so gently about how to cross the road safely. There was something about this huge gentle giant of a man and my tiny, trusting nephew looking up at him that made my heart melt and I knew then that he would be a good dad.

Jugendstiel · 21/11/2025 17:51

GetOverTheEgo · 21/11/2025 13:03

We had a teeny tiny abandoned puppy. I went away for the weekend and came back to find he had built her a staircase so she could onto our bed.

She lived until she was 18 years old!

Oh god, I love that one!

Silvercoconut · 21/11/2025 21:45

blackrabbitwhiterabbit · 20/11/2025 20:56

Rolling up his sleeves

OMG YES!
I find it so sexy, and I love a man's big hands and hairy forearms 😅
My daughter thinks I'm nuts......

AmyDuPlantier · 21/11/2025 22:16

The first time we stayed in a hotel together, in the morning he gathered all my toiletries from the bathroom, dried them all off with a towel, and neatly packed them for me, all without saying a single word.

I knew then that he instinctively knew what I needed and would quietly and carefully look after me always.

He was also dressed in his bike leathers which added a certain something 😁😁😁😁

mayishangshu · 21/11/2025 22:41

Every time he puts rubber gloves on and starts cleanning.

TrentCrimmsflowinglocks · 21/11/2025 22:45

Defend women’s rights.

GetOverTheEgo · 22/11/2025 06:47

Jugendstiel · 21/11/2025 17:51

Oh god, I love that one!

That's when I knew he was The One. Smile

JustAn0therUsername · 22/11/2025 06:55

He fixes things. Cars, our home, kids toys. He is just capable. Seeing him with his tools just sorting things is amazing. He does this for my family as well as his, too.

His capability extends to emotional maturity as well. He is just the best.

GreenGodiva · 22/11/2025 07:24

My DH isn’t really handy or anything like that but he took on me and two small kids and I was incredibly damaged. Dv, rape, childhood sexual abuse and emotional neglect. But he held me and taped back together and didn’t let go until I could manage it on my own. He loves my two eldest with a fierce passion and doesn’t treat them any differently to our own two. We briefly separated when I was in therapy after 7 years and he took all 4 kids every weekend for 4 months so I could rest. He’s an amazing grandad to my eldest 4 kids and takes great pleasure in rough and tumbling with the kids every time we go around. He’s just so bloody patient, tolerant and he loves me completely and utterly, flaws and all. Every day I see him watching me just do stuff and I feel his eyes on me and it gets me frisky. 25 years in and he still gives me the Fanny gallops.

he is the best person I’ve ever known in my entire life and the feelings and emotions my body holds for him, the love I have for him , just can’t be put into words no matter how hard I try.

Sequinsoneverythingplease · 22/11/2025 07:32

My ex used to come out to the car when I came home from the weekly food shop, pick up every single bag and carry them all in at once. It used to make us laugh, but I secretly loved it.

Mikart · 22/11/2025 07:33

Clean the bathroom

shinny · 22/11/2025 09:32

Fill the car with petrol for me to save me time.

Makes me tea every morning and many times during the day.

He also started the car to warm it up for me a few times on cold mornings.

SeaAndStars · 22/11/2025 10:23

Standing outside in freezing weather on Christmas day holding the dog's dinner until it cools down enough for the dog to be able to eat with us.

BrassOlive · 22/11/2025 10:45

Taking time off work to care for his elderly gran

Wambamaloomaawambamboo · 22/11/2025 11:17

Mydogsnicerthanyourdog · 20/11/2025 21:35

Leave the house with all his possessions. 👍

😂😂😂

GetOverTheEgo · 22/11/2025 11:26

shinny · 22/11/2025 09:32

Fill the car with petrol for me to save me time.

Makes me tea every morning and many times during the day.

He also started the car to warm it up for me a few times on cold mornings.

It's these things that seem little that make all the difference.

DH once said he knew he loved me when I would go a make a cup of tea and asked him if he wanted one too. Apparently he never had been in a relationship with someone who did that before.

DS1 and I got out each weekend for coffee and cake. I always buy a slice each to bring home to DH and DS2. (DS2 doesn't come for various reasons- he prefers to chill on his own). It;'s small, but it's to show I love them and am thinking of them.

Allthecatseverywhereallatonce · 22/11/2025 11:42

The way she drives one handed 😍
Her sleeve tattoo
The way she kisses the back of my hand and holds it whilst she is driving
The care she takes to straighten my hair and paint my toenails
How she makes my tea just the way I like it
The way she looks into my eyes
I am one lucky woman

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